Sleep apnea may significantly increase the risk for long COVID in adults, according to a study led by the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER Initiative and supported by NYU Langone Health as home to the effort’s Clinical Science Core (CSC).
Five local organizations are among the 54 first-round award recipients of a $230 million statewide program to expand health care services. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, Porter-Leath and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center received grants from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Healthcare Resiliency Program.
The first technological achievement is what co-author, Erik Garrison, calls “a quiet revolution in nanotechnology” that allows scientists to see single molecules of DNA. “The fact that you can have a single molecule means you can make a single read that is very, very long,” says Garrison, a computational genetics researcher at the University of… Read More
The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees Executive Committee held their spring meeting on May 5. The meeting addressed a variety of topics, including budgetary issues and state legislation that impacts UT System and higher education in general. Other projects, both directly and indirectly affiliated with UT, will also receive money from state and local governments through a… Read More
The next generation of medical professionals are taking their first steps into the world. The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis held its commencement ceremonies Monday and Tuesday.
One Memphis doctor is training up the next generation of medical professionals through the program Determined to be a Doctor Someday. Children from around Memphis gathered at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Tuesday. They all want to pursue a career in medicine, and Dr. Christina Rosenthal is helping them get there.
860 graduates will walk across the stage at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) Spring 2023 commencement. Degrees will be awarded to 860 graduates, including 129 from the College of Health Professions, 166 from the College of Medicine, 178 from the College of Pharmacy, 71 from the College of Nursing, 29 from the… Read More
Ballo and local medical professionals such as Dr. L. Madison Michael II, neurosurgeon at Semmes Murphey and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, worked for years to bring this technology to Memphis. The therapy has been used in other medical facilities with great success and dramatically improves quality of life… Read More
